Summary
Aron Walsh is a Full Professor and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the Department of Materials. He leads the Materials Design Group at Imperial College and holds a Dual Professorship at Yonsei University, Korea.
Aron was awarded his PhD in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin. He then worked for the US Department of Energy at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), followed by a Marie Curie Fellowship hosted by University College London, and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship held at the University of Bath.
His research involves cutting-edge materials theory and simulation applied to problems across solid state chemistry and physics, including materials for solar cells and fuels, batteries, thermoelectrics, and solid-state lighting. He has an expertise in the theory of semiconductors and dielectrics, and is developing innovative solutions for materials data, informatics and design. His group published a review on machine learning for molecules and materials in Nature.
These activities have been supported by funding from the Royal Society, EPSRC, ERC, Horizon2020, and the Faraday Institution.
In 2015, Aron was awarded the EU-40 prize from the European Materials Research Society and the Chemistry Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship for his work on the theory of next-generation perovskite photovoltaics. In 2017, he was a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize. In 2019, he received the Corday-Morgan Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry for his breakthrough research on hybrid organic-inorganic solids.
Aron features in the Highly Cited Researchers list. A full publication list can be found on Google Scholar.
Scientific Editor
Royal Society of Chemistry: Materials Horizons
Institute of Physics: JPhys Energy
Royal Society of Chemistry: Sustainable Energy & Fuels
American Institute of Physics: APL Materials
Publications
Journals
Yang H, Yang J-Y, Savory CN, et al., 2019, Highly Anisotropic Thermal Transport in LiCoO2., J Phys Chem Lett, Pages:5552-5556
Davies DW, Butler KT, Walsh A, Data-Driven Discovery of Photoactive Quaternary Oxides Using First-Principles Machine Learning, Chemistry of Materials, ISSN:0897-4756
Bakulin A, Pastor E, Park J-S, et al., In situ observation of picosecond polaron self-localisation in α-Fe2O3 photoelectrochemical cells, Nature Communications, ISSN:2041-1723
Calbo J, Golomb MJ, Walsh A, 2019, Redox-active metal-organic frameworks for energy conversion and storage, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol:7, ISSN:2050-7488, Pages:16571-16597
Hood S, Walsh A, Persson C, et al., Status of materials and device modelling for kesterite solar cells, Journal of Physics: Energy